Take Life Easy.
by WIGHTMAN Ralph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Pelham,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, corner clipped from front endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. Wightman's autobiography is partricularly interesting for the light it throws on the BBC of the 1950's (the author was a regular broadcaster on the countryside, and a panel member of 'Any Questions' and 'The Brain's Trust')
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4957
- Title
- Take Life Easy.
- Author
- WIGHTMAN Ralph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pelham,
- Date Published
- [1968]
- Keywords
- countryside, illustrated, ralph wightman, countryside authors, take, life, easy
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About the Seller
Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Paste-down
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- Bookplate
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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